Page 33 - Thorn In The Heart

Chinh Nguyên

flamboyant branch to follow the love call, where she was so
close to his arms. But Nguyen did not know how to get and how
to forget.

Sometimes he felt a little sorrow when he looks at the naked
trees, which are shaking in the coldest air and stand with the
Winter to wait for the coming Spring. It means that the time has
been continuing to change in the cycle of natural laws,
everything will pleasure to die when their times were coming,
then other generations will grow in peaceful of love. Seemed,
the leaders led the people to oppose these laws; they used the
power that God gave them to overcome any things by their
ambitions of living. They were trying to hold back the past, keep
up their long life and tried to change the world toward the
devastation for dominating the same kind; even they were
accepting the war to kill one of another for benefits.

The flamboyant trees on Thong-Nhat boulevard sidewalks
bloom the full red flowers as the giant red carpet hung in the air
over three miles, where Nguyen like to come at the sunset, walks
slowly to watch the red petals dropping out of their balls, and
sliding in the air, then run with the light whirlwinds on the
sidewalks. Sometimes, Nguyen watched the red petal flowers
running around his feet, and felt the red petals looks like the
drops of blood that leave his heart then spread in his soul to be
the red flowers and he asked himself in a whisper:

“Nguyen. What will you do for your life? What is love for
you and country? where the war will come to destroy humanity
and how many more young men will be killed on the battlefield
for pleasure their leaders?”

Life was too short, and hardship for a living, but humanity
was busy to struggle with their problem of love. How we can
open our hearts to living in the peaceful, and together, we will
build the world with love and happiness.

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